Ice-cream disher.



J. J. HONECKER.

'ICE CREAM DISHER.

APPLICATION FILED D2015, 1910.

49 5 5 Patented Jan. 7, 1913. I

WITNESSES: I [NVENTOR Atzofney STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB J. HQNECKER, OE-CIJEVELAND, OHIO.

' ICE-CREAM DISHER.

I While the device has'been designed pecially for dispensing ice cream, it will-be understood as being useful in many other relations, and when the term ice cream is employed in the following description and claims it is myintention that it shall be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive.

'The invention comprises certain features of construction, or their equivalents, hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 'Figurel is a perspective view of the invention complete, with themovable parts in .normal position; Fig. 2 is a planview of the same, partly brokenaway and show.- ing the movable parts inthe opposite position; Fig. 3 is a' transverse section showing the locking means in' elevation, and 'Fig. 4 is .a transverse section on the. line H of Fig. 2,, with the scraper removed.

Throughout the followingidescription and on the several figures of the drawings similar parts are referred to. by like reference characters. At 10 is indicated a spoon or bowl, preferably of hemi-spherical form, to which is connected a shank or support 11 and handle- 12. As is customary in devices of this character the bowl is provided with a scraper 13 to facilitate delivery of its contents by loosening the same from the inner surface of the bowl. The scraper is shown of semi-circular form to conform to the bowl, surface over which it is movable from one side to the other. For utensils of this nature to be sanitary it is essential that they be coning. To this end the scraper is provided with a'pair of trunnions 14 and 15 extendmg outwardlytherefrom and jour'naled in Specification of Letters ZPatent. Application filed December 15, 1am; I Serial m.

the rim of the bowl inbearings lfl and 17, respectively The latterbearing is undercut, as shown best in Fig.4, and has an open side of less width than the diameterof the bearing'an'd trunnion therein, whereby the trunnion is normally prevented from Patented Jan. 7, 191.3."

lateral displacement. The curved portion! of the scraper being of flexible and resilient material, its trunnion 14; may easily be snapped into orout of its bearing 16, and

its resiliency-maintains both trunnions normally -1n place. A rock shaft 18 of any suitable length extends from the trunnion 15 in the. axis. of both Ytrunnions-substantlally parallel to the support 11 and is -shown with its opposite end 18 journaled in a bearing 19 adjacent the handle. The shaft, being of less diameter than the trunnion 15, may readily pass laterally in or out of the side opening of the'be'aring 17 when shifted longitudinally so as to bring the large trunnion 15 beyond said bearing.

To remove the scraper and shaft from the bearings and thus detach the same from the bowl, it is but necessary to push the trunnion 1 1 inwardly out of its bearing, by a 1 finger or thumb nail, and upon throwing the end of the. scraper adjacent the trunnion 14 outward or upward to clear the edge of the bowl the trunnion 15 and shaft 18 may slide longitudinally out of their bearings, and the'shaft will be free to. pass laterally from the bearing 17. The scraper is replaced by simply reversing these operations.

Any suitable meansmay be. employed'to cause desired movement of the scraperto orto prevent movement thereof fromits and fro across the inner surface of'the bowl normal position during the filling of the bowl. the scraper located normally at .or near one lateral edge of the bowl there is a tendencyfor the ice cream to cause it to be forced inwardly toward the bottom of the bowl,

In'devices ofthis character having es ecially when operating upon hard cream L w ich is generally demanded in connection with the soda water trade; Accordingly I have shown at 20 an actuator which 1n its ccoperation with the rock shaft 18 well meets these conditions of control ofthe scraper. Said actuator may be pivoted to the shank 11 at 21 and is maintained in normal position by a spring 22, againstthe force of which it may be moved, to swing the scraper from normal posltlon, by manual the shaft and scraper may 'be rotated in eitherdirection. The pinion also has a flat 29 which normally lies upon or coincides with the actuator flat 26, whereby the pinion, shaft, and scra er are positively locked from rotation in eit er direction. When, how-' ever, the actuator is moved from normal position, as toward the right in Fig. 3, the arc flat slides freely beneath the pinion fiat,

and said cam 27 will engage a lug 30 on the pinion and cause thepinion to begin rotating so as to bring the pinion teeth into mesh with the rack teeth during the remainder of the said movement of the actuator. On the reverse movement of the actuator, as the last pinion tooth leaves the rack the two flats will again assume the locking rela tion. The actuator is shown provided with lugs or shoulders 31 and 32 to limit its move-- ment across the shank. The position of the actuator in Fig. 2 is that best suited for the purpose of removing and replacing the scraper. The actuator may be secured pivotally to the shank by anysuitable means, but as indicated in Figs. 1 and a the shaft 18 and actuator hub are so arranged and proportion'ed that the shaft normally, by contact at 20', holds the actuator in place. After the scraper and shaft are removed as above set forth the actuator too may be removed from the shank without the use of any tools whatever.

I claim:

,1. In an ice cream disher, the combination of a bowl, a support therefor, a scraper pivoted in therim of the bowl on an axis substantially parallel to said support, an

actuator connected to the scraper for rota flat preventing movement of the scraper, a

series of rack teeth, and a cam to cooperate with said pinion lug to cause the pinion and rack teeth to mesh,-whereby the scraper will be moved during the latter port-ion of the movement of the'actuator.

3. In an ice cream disher, the combination with a hemispherical bowl, of a semi-circular scraper movable across the innersurface of the bowl from one side to the other and conforming thereto, means connected to the scraper to control its. movements, and an actuator cooperating with said scraper controlling means to rotate the scraper to loosen the contents of the bowl, said actuator including means whereby in its normal position it serves to positively locl: the scraper from rotation in either direction. 4. In an ice cream disher, the combination of a bowl, a support therefor, a scraper in the bowl, a shaft to control the operation of the scraper and journalod adjacent said support, an actuator between the shaft and the support and pivoted to the latter, and means associated Wlilh said actuator and shaft for normally positively locking said scraper from rotation in either direction.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB J. HONECKER.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR W. HONEOKER, GERTRUDE RoUEoHE. 

